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As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art
Book Title Author(s) : Rebecca Solnit
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To Rebecca Solnit, the word "landscape" implies not only literal places, but also the ground on which we invent our lives and confront our innermost troubles and desires. The organic world, to Solnit, gives rise to the social, political, and philosophical landscapes we inhabit. As Eve Said to the...Read More

Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America
Book Title Author(s) : Keith Gessen, Astra Taylor, Carla Blumenkranz, Mark Greif, Sarah Leonard, Sarah Resnick, Nikil Saval, Eli Schmitt
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The first book to explore the Occupy movement in depth, with reportage and analysis.In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, Occupy! combines adr...Read More

Measure of Paris (Wayfarer)
Book Title Author(s) : Stephen Scobie
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Paris remains one of the most fascinating cities in the world. It provides a measure of excellence in many areas of culture, and it is itself constantly being measured, both by its lovers and by its critics. This book presents a series of studies on the images of Paris presented by writers (mostly C...Read More

American Wilderness: A New History
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This collected volume of original essays proposes to address the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of Americans responses to wilderness from first contact to the present. While not bringing a synthetic narrative to wilderness, the volume will gather competin...Read More

A Companion to American Environmental History (Blackwell Companions to American History)
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A Companion to American Environmental History gathers together a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examine the evolving and diverse field of American environmental history.Provides a complete historiography of American environmental historyBrings the field up-to-date to reflect ...Read More

Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
Book Title Author(s) : Tom Zoellner
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The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yieldUranium is a common element in the earth's crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global order-whoever could master uranium ...Read More

The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism
Book Title Author(s) : Geoff Nicholson
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A fascinating, definitive, and very personal rumination on the history, science, philosophy, art, and literature of walking, by a skilled cultural commentator. Geoff Nicholson, author of Bleeding London and Sex Collectors, turns his eye to the intellectual and cultural history o...Read More

Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture
Book Title Author(s) : Carolyn Merchant
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Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth....Read More

See 1:3: A Journal of Visual Culture
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see, a quarterly journal published by The Friends of Photography, presents striking photography and fine writing that explore the impact of lens-based images on contemporary culture. see places the medium of photography within the broad discourse of visual culture, including art, advertising, mass m...Read More

 

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